A nanometer is what fraction of a meter?
AnswerOne billionth
A nanometer is 10 to the minus 9 meters.
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7 fact-checked facts about nanotechnology, nanomaterials and science at the nanoscale, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
The prefix nano comes from a Greek word meaning what?
AnswerDwarf
Nano comes from the Greek nanos, meaning dwarf.
Going deeper
What does STM stand for in nanoscience?
AnswerScanning tunneling microscope
The STM images individual atoms using quantum tunneling.
A human hair is roughly how wide in nanometers?
AnswerAbout 80,000 to 100,000
Hair is tens of thousands of nanometers across.
A carbon nanotube can be pictured as what?
AnswerA rolled-up sheet of graphene
Nanotubes are graphene rolled into a seamless cylinder.
Expert level
In which year did Geim and Novoselov win the Nobel Prize for graphene?
Answer2010
They shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 1989, IBM researchers spelled IBM using 35 atoms of which element?
AnswerXenon
Don Eigler's team arranged 35 xenon atoms on a nickel surface.
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